Touchscreens on notebooks not really likely from major computer makers? Typically on desktops? How did this guy get to be a VP at Gartner? Certainly it wasn't due to his knowledge of the market. Lenovo, Dell, and HP have all released notebooks with touchscreens. Not just pen input but "press your finger on the screen" touch. Dell's XT is even capable of multi-touch. Hard for something to be "not really likely" when it's already happening.

As for the assertion touchscreens are more "typical" for a desktop model, there's one touchscreen desktop from a major PC maker, and it's HP's Touchsmart (http://www.hp.com/united-states/campaigns/touchsmart/). Compare that to Lenovo's X200 (http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoPortal/en_US/catalog.workflow:category.details?current-catalog-id=12F0696583E04D86B9B79B0FEC01C087&current-category-id=329576204C9E42289967E79E0E7C9A2D), Dell's Latitude XT (http://www.dell.com/tablet), and HP's tx2500 (http://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/shopping/computer_can_series.do?storeName=computer_store&category=notebooks&a1=Brand&v1=HP+Pavilion&series_name=tx2500z_series), not to mention HP's pen-only 2730p (http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF25a/321957-321957-64295-3740645-306995-3784558.html). I don't know what fancy analysis is involved in claiming touchscreens are more typical on desktops, but using my old-fashioned method called "counting", I'm pretty sure notebooks win out here.[+/-] Hide/Show Text[+/-] Hide/Show Text